Give me a break. If this were true, half the women in the country would have throat cancer....

Hess, you're turning a thread full of delightful puns into a statistical debate. For shame.

The study does not say "give head, get cancer." It says that oral sex with mutliple partners INCREASES THE RISK of getting throat cancer. That means you're MORE LIKELY to get cancer as a result of the HPV virus in your throat. But you could be one of the lucky ones who gives head to people who just don't happen to have HPV - then you won't get cancer. Or you could get HPV, and still not develop cancer.

The more partners you perform unprotected oral sex on, the more likely you are to get cancer. Of course it's true. But it doesn't mean you'll definitely get cancer.